Description

Aligned with both Texas and California education standards, this elementary science kit with manual contains classic 4^th grade hands-on experiments that can be incorporated into virtually any elementary science curricula.

Research confirms that hands-on science experimentation fosters deeper understanding of course materials. It offers a critical balance to any virtual courses by improving student motor skills, providing sensory feedback, and relieving screen fatigue.

Each kit includes most of the materials needed for the labs (other than common household items), a manual that provides step-by-step guidance, a student journal, and a teacher’s answer key.

These kits are specifically for the laboratory segment of a course, while the remainder of the curriculum should be taught using a standard textbook.

The Labs

Matter and Energy

1. Particularly Phenomenal Physical Properties of Matter

2 . States of Matter: Solid or Liquid?

3. All Mixed Up (Mixtures and Solutions) 

Force, Motion, and Energy

4. Forms of Energy

5. Magnet Mania

6. Making a Magnet from an Electric Current 

Earth and Space

7. Properties of Soils

8. The Changing Surface of the Earth

9. Renewable and Non-renewable Resources

10. Weather Predictions and Weather Maps

11. The Water Cycle

12. Moon Viewing and Moon Cycles 

Organisms and Environments

13. Food Chains and Food Webs

14. Decomposers and Recycling

15. Adaptations

16. Inherited vs. Learned

17. Life Cycle Comparisons

Materials and Equipment included with the kit

Balance scale

Balloon (2)

Beakers, 150-mL graduated (2)

Blue foam

Borax

Bowl, plastic

Coffee filter paper

Compass

Copper strip

Copy of Figure 12.3 (from Journal)

Cup, clear 9-oz (4, reusable)

Cup, clear 12-oz. (1)

Cups, foam (2)

“D” battery (Labs 4 and 6)

“D” battery holder with 2 end clips (Labs 4 and 6)

Drinking straw

Figure of maple leaf

Figure of palm leaf

Flash cards of the butterfly cycle

Funnel

Glue

Goggles, safety

Ink pad

Insulated copper wire, 1 m (with both ends stripped of insulation)

Insulated wiring with alligator clip ends (3)

Iron filings with small scoop

Iron nail, small

Light bulb (small) with holder

Light sticks (2)

Magnet (2) (Labs 1 and 5)

Magnifier

Marble

Metal block (Al)

Mixture B (15 colored marbles and 15 marbles of a different color)

Packing peanuts

Paper clips, several small and 1 large

Pencil

Permanent marking pen

Petri dish

Plastic sandwich bags (4)

Potting soil (1/2 cup)

Radish seeds (10)

Recycling cards numbers 1 through 7

Rocks (2)

Rubber band, large

Rubber stopper (any size)

Ruler, metric

Sand, fine (small bag)

Sandpaper (1 sheet, coarse grain)

Sandpaper (1 sheet, fine grain)

Set of Happy/Sad balls

Steel nail, large

Steel nail, small

String, 1 m

Super ball

Tape measure, metric

Thermometer (°F/0C)

Toy Dinosaur

Weather map

Wood block

Zinc strip

Zip top bag, gallon-sized